Healthy Homemade Crunch Bars
Growing up, I’ve always gravitated towards Hershey’s Cookies & Cream Bars or Snickers… nothing else. But the variety of candies passed out during Halloween always made me think, “Oh my GOSH this is so good, why don’t I ever eat these??” I’d think that about Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Twizzlers, and Dots… but most of all, I’d think that about Crunch Bars. They’re so simple, but so good. They’re chocolatey, crunchy, crispy. They satisfy your sweet tooth with every bite. So since Halloween is coming up, I thought I’d try my hand at making them myself. Especially after reading the ingredient list off the store-bought bars.
Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Nonfat Milk, Milkfat, Lactose, Soy Lecithin, Natural Flavor, Crisped Rice (Rice Flour, Sugar, Barley Malt, Salt).
One good thing is that they removed preservatives and artificial ingredients (such as PGPR and vanillin) from their ingredient list, but it’s still basically pure sugar 🙁
To avoid those less-than-ideal ingredients, I made this super easy delicious recipe for ya!
These 2-ingredient Homemade Crunch Bars taste just like the store-bought version, except they’re WAY better! All the crunchy, crispy, chocolatey heaven, yet made all natural, refined sugar free, and gluten free too!
Perfect for Halloween, healthy dessert, a decadent snack, or all of the above 😉
Healthy Homemade Crunch Bars
Ingredients
- 6.5 oz No-Sugar-Added Dark Chocolate
- 2 cups Crispy Brown Rice Cereal
Instructions
- In a large microwave-safe bowl, add the dark chocolate. Microwave at 30-second intervals, stirring between each one, until completely melted. Let cool for 10 minutes.
- Stir in the crispy rice cereal, then spoon the mixture into 2 trays of these chocolate candy bar molds (makes 6 bars total).
But wanna know what makes this recipe really great? It requires only 2 ingredients!
I might just make some fun-sized ones and sneak ’em into the theatre… because I ain’t paying $9 for a big tub of trans fat-filled popcorn. Naw thank you.
These Homemade Crunch Bars are UBER chocolatey — they’ll satisfy your sweet tooth in a single bite!
Totally drool-worthy stuff right here 😉
Enjoy!
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With love and good eats,
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– Jess
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Indulge − no strings attached!
I was looking for a healthy recipe like this one! Thank you! Kids will love it!
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What brand of crispy brown rice cereal do you use?
I use Erewhon! 🙂
This is great but the molds you put only makes 3 bars so 1/2 of them would only make 6 bars total, not 12. So do you use 2 of these molds? Also was wondering of you know the grams or ozs of each serving? Ty again these are PERFECT cant wait to try
I said in the instructions to use 2 trays, so you’ll be able to make 6 bars, which you cut in half to make 12 servings (the bars are pretty big, like standard Hershey’s candy bars… which are 2 servings too) 🙂
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This looks good. I want to try it. What size candy bar molds did you use? The link for the molds went to a dead end.
Ooops! Just fixed the link! 🙂